This book wins the
Best All Round Film Noir Companion Award hands down. Crammed full
of
iconic
noir images in the form of hundreds of film stills, publicity shots,
lobby
cards and movie posters, all in glorious black and white -- except for
a
special full color movie poster section -- Dark City is
fabulous
just to sit and flip through. But it's also much more: It's
a well written analytical history of the genre from origin to
conclusion,
focusing on its antecedents and its conventions, its helmsmen and its
guiding
lights, and most of all on the individual films themselves: giving
equal
time to the big hits and to the lesser known gems that burn darkly in
their
obscurity.

Whether you are
already a
confirmed member of the noir cognoscenti or a noir ingenue with a yen
for
more, this book fits the bill.